Technology Review: Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth
Circularity on defining truth and verifiability on Wikipedia discussed on Technology Review: So what is Truth? According to Wikipedia’s entry […]
View ArticleHow I learned to accept Wikipedia
My attempts to reject Wikipedia have failed just as this clip from All That Jazz predicted. Anger Denial Bargain Depression […]
View ArticleIntercultural differences between various versions of Wikipeda
Wikipedia has more than 200 versions (including one in Klingon). Looking at the top 500 pages, can we find any […]
View ArticleA social entropy vision of wiki collaboration
Despite the fact that diverse and equal participation of members is considered to be the essence of true online communities, […]
View ArticleWikipedia scholars
Aniket Kittur is the author of several very interesting papers about inequality of contribution on Wikipedia. His website hosts a […]
View ArticleWikiXRay
Fabulous resource for analyzing Wikipedia data. See what they did with in this paper by Ortega on Wikipedia inequality of […]
View ArticleWikipedia contributions, motivations studied by UN University survey
At Wikimania I sat on a panel with Ruidiger Glott who presented a paper on the first multilingual survey of […]
View ArticleWikipedia in academic studies
Wikimedia maintains this extensive and valuable list of academic papers dedicated to academic research that focuses on Wikipedia (such as […]
View ArticleWikitruth Through Wikiorder
On Wikipedia it matters who you are and how you did it, not what you did. How does large-scale social […]
View ArticleWikipedia becomes more organized, norms activities stricter
Wikipedia has become an increasingly organized bureacracy, with rules and norms that are more complex and performance according to studies […]
View ArticleCommunicative Practices in Virtual Workspaces
Image via Wikipedia Three Very interesting papers by an interesting team at University of Washington that has done great work […]
View ArticleThe collaborative construction of “fact” on Wikipedia
Interesting paper on the social construction of facts on Wikipedia. For years Wikipedia has come to symbolize the potential of […]
View Article“edit this page”: the power of editing affordances
Editing interface on Wikipedia via Wikipedia An interesting paper on the minimalist approach to editing interfaces on Wikipedia. Networked environments, […]
View ArticleDeletionists – Schott’s Vocab Blog – NYTimes.com
NYT makes “deletionst”–as in “someone who deletes Wikipedia article on a daily basis”-a notable phrase… In the Wall Street Journal, […]
View ArticleIndependent and interdependent task allocation in Wikipedia editorial work
Image via Wikipedia Wikipedia articles that are controlled by a small group of editors that coordinate their work closely seem […]
View ArticleDirk Riehle: How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley,...
Image via Wikipedia The inside view of how Wikipedia works This article presents an interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, […]
View ArticleLess is more, even when we communicate
Image via Wikipedia Lifehacker picks this little tid-bit of insight from Inc: You might think that involving a bunch of […]
View ArticlePreece and Shneiderman about the pattern of collboration online using...
This piece, which is available online, has become an instant classic… Billions of people participate in online social activities. Most […]
View ArticleApplied social media research: what makes Wikipedia tick?
Wikipedia, had in July 2010 over 12 million users and 3.5 million articles ( see latest Wikipedia Stats) and was […]
View ArticleState of the art research on social networks and social media (Wikipedia)
Academic researchers have deployed in the last decade several innovative approaches to studying social networking and via graph and complexity […]
View ArticleDeciphering the social media genome: Toward an ecology of social roles in...
Nothing seems more random to the naked eye than the babble of online exchanges. Are the posting patterns on Wikipedia […]
View ArticleThe Story Behind a Wikipedia Entry – NYTimes.com
Image via CrunchBase The first historiography of a Wikipedia entry…. James Bridle founded a Web site called Booktwo in September […]
View ArticleIndividualist Motivators and Community Functional Constraints in Social...
This is the title of the opening theoretical chapter of Francesca Comunello’s edited book “Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for […]
View ArticleDigital Scholarship in Humanities and Social Sciences Course – 63200 Graduate...
Description The course is a guide to the emerging field of educational and scholarly theories and practices that use networked […]
View ArticleTitanic Wreck Exact Location on Google Earth Map of North Atlantic (KMZ)
April 15 is the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on its maiden voyage in 1912. The wreck of […]
View ArticleA list of Twitter Sentiment Analysis Tools
A wonderful list of Twitter Sentiment Analysis Tools collated by Twittersentiment.appspot.com… Twitter Analysis Tools look at the meaning of the […]
View ArticleKredibleNet project awarded NSF grant, will study reputation in social media...
It’s official: The National Science Foundation hereby awards a grant of $179,594 to Purdue University for support of the project […]
View ArticleIn Search of the Ur-Wikipedia: Universality, Similarity, and Translation in...
A notable paper about Wikipedia versions and interactions across linguistic boundaries Wikipedia has become one of the primary encyclopaedic in- […]
View ArticleIs Social Media a Spiral of Silence Machine? From “Daily Me,” to Homophily...
This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University by Sorin […]
View ArticleCom 559 Syllabus – Current Trends in Mass Communication Research – From Mass...
Purdue University Fall 2014 Meeting time: T – Th, 10:30 pm – 11:45, BRNG 2291 Office hours: BRNG 2132, 2:30-4 […]
View ArticleIn Amenas Hostage Crisis is not as close to Mali as some think (map)
Several Western workers were taken hostage in Algeria by Islamists, at the Tigantourine gas plant facility raising the specter of […]
View ArticleThe latest on Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia founder
Not a billionaire, yet enjoying the limelight… Married for the third time, now to a Londoner, Jimmy Wales enjoys life […]
View ArticleGoogle Defines Quantum Computing as An Exercise in Harnessing the Idea That...
? Google and NASA’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab – YouTube. What is Quantum Computing? According to this Google Video Clip, […]
View Article10 coolest videos on how the latest digital and hardwired objects are made
An awesome collection of “technology demystified” videos from the digital living magazine, Wired… Emphasis on special effects…
View ArticleLess is not more: Larger open source projects do better if well organized
View image | gettyimages.com Spontaneous production groups are thought to be less effective at larger scales. Lacking formal organization, […]
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